Obama editorial off base

Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 01:08 PM.

On Feb. 13, the Star’s editorial read “Americans targeted without due process.” Now, I’m not law professor, but I have seen every episode of “Law and Order.” Due process involves arrest, trial, conviction, and punishment. So let’s look at the people targeted. They moved to a country without extradition so arrest is impossible. Thus they denied themselves the first step of due process. Next, they pledged their allegiance to al-Qaeda in some “death to America” video. Thus they have confessed publicly and there is no need of a trial or conviction. The sentence is death. Two weeks ago, the L.A. cop killer had a right to due process, but he chose not to take it. He died too. Your editorial was way off base. Even Thomas Sowell agrees with me and we can’t agree on anything.

You make it seem that Obama is just targeting any American for death that he wants. Is this all you have to bash Obama about? Obama has waged a war on the terrorists which has caused vastly fewer civilian deaths, vastly fewer American military deaths and cost vastly fewer dollars to do. At one time, in Bush’s war on terror, we were spending ten billion dollars per month on Iraq. By the way, who paid for that? And there was that thing about bin Laden. Obama is taking the fight to al-Qaeda in countries where they are, not countries where they are not. I cannot see why you would cry “due process” for people who are self-confessed traitors. Oh yeah, you were trying to say it was the same as water boarding. That dog don’t hunt.

But while we are talking about traitors, a while back some folks like Todd Palin and Chuck Norris were all for seceding from the U.S.A. After the last election, a bunch of other folks signed a petition to secede. If you want to secede from the U.S., then I don’t see how you could pledge allegiance to the U.S. If you cannot pledge allegiance to the U.S., then you are not too different from the folks above who have left America. You have already left it in your heart. Goodbye, good riddance.

Most of the Star’s editorials about Obama are slanted against him. Sometimes I think you are playing to the haters that I called out in my previous letter to the Star. I got some responses to that letter. Most said they were not haters, but then launched into a tirade of baseless charges against Obama which seemed like hate to me. But these baseless charges take the place of the previous ones, “Obama is not American born; he is a secret Muslim; he failed at Harvard; he is the antichrist, etc.” There is a Commandment which goes, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” I think Donald Trump may have broken this commandment. Have you?

Please, all of you, what did you want Obama to do? Did you want Obama to discontinue Bush’s bailouts and let the car companies and banks fail? Did you want him to let our whole economy go down the drain? Just where were all you economic experts in 2008, when the thing went bad? And did you want Obama to abandon Bush’s timeline to withdraw from Iraq and stay there for 100 years like John McCain wanted? I do not have room for all my questions, but please pass on that wisdom to us—how any president could fix everything that the Bush administration broke.

Lastly, the Star can print anything it wants. It’s a free country and I will still subscribe to the Star. And I know that I will never make a dent in the haters. Sowell, Williams, West and the others will still bash Obama no matter what. But I am concerned that smart kids in high school all over ClevelandCounty are reading a steady stream of right-leaning propaganda. If they never hear another side, they might start to believe some of it. I am just asking for some reasonable balance. “Fair and balanced”, now where have I heard that before?

On Feb. 13, the Star’s editorial read “Americans targeted without due process.” Now, I’m not law professor, but I have seen every episode of “Law and Order.” Due process involves arrest, trial, conviction, and punishment. So let’s look at the people targeted. They moved to a country without extradition so arrest is impossible. Thus they denied themselves the first step of due process. Next, they pledged their allegiance to al-Qaeda in some “death to America” video. Thus they have confessed publicly and there is no need of a trial or conviction. The sentence is death. Two weeks ago, the L.A. cop killer had a right to due process, but he chose not to take it. He died too. Your editorial was way off base. Even Thomas Sowell agrees with me and we can’t agree on anything.

You make it seem that Obama is just targeting any American for death that he wants. Is this all you have to bash Obama about? Obama has waged a war on the terrorists which has caused vastly fewer civilian deaths, vastly fewer American military deaths and cost vastly fewer dollars to do. At one time, in Bush’s war on terror, we were spending ten billion dollars per month on Iraq. By the way, who paid for that? And there was that thing about bin Laden. Obama is taking the fight to al-Qaeda in countries where they are, not countries where they are not. I cannot see why you would cry “due process” for people who are self-confessed traitors. Oh yeah, you were trying to say it was the same as water boarding. That dog don’t hunt.

But while we are talking about traitors, a while back some folks like Todd Palin and Chuck Norris were all for seceding from the U.S.A. After the last election, a bunch of other folks signed a petition to secede. If you want to secede from the U.S., then I don’t see how you could pledge allegiance to the U.S. If you cannot pledge allegiance to the U.S., then you are not too different from the folks above who have left America. You have already left it in your heart. Goodbye, good riddance.

Most of the Star’s editorials about Obama are slanted against him. Sometimes I think you are playing to the haters that I called out in my previous letter to the Star. I got some responses to that letter. Most said they were not haters, but then launched into a tirade of baseless charges against Obama which seemed like hate to me. But these baseless charges take the place of the previous ones, “Obama is not American born; he is a secret Muslim; he failed at Harvard; he is the antichrist, etc.” There is a Commandment which goes, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” I think Donald Trump may have broken this commandment. Have you?

Please, all of you, what did you want Obama to do? Did you want Obama to discontinue Bush’s bailouts and let the car companies and banks fail? Did you want him to let our whole economy go down the drain? Just where were all you economic experts in 2008, when the thing went bad? And did you want Obama to abandon Bush’s timeline to withdraw from Iraq and stay there for 100 years like John McCain wanted? I do not have room for all my questions, but please pass on that wisdom to us—how any president could fix everything that the Bush administration broke.

Lastly, the Star can print anything it wants. It’s a free country and I will still subscribe to the Star. And I know that I will never make a dent in the haters. Sowell, Williams, West and the others will still bash Obama no matter what. But I am concerned that smart kids in high school all over ClevelandCounty are reading a steady stream of right-leaning propaganda. If they never hear another side, they might start to believe some of it. I am just asking for some reasonable balance. “Fair and balanced”, now where have I heard that before?